Berkley Center

Thomas Banchoff is director of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs and serves as vice president for global engagement at Georgetown University, where he is a professor in the Department of Government and the Walsh School of Foreign Service.

José Casanova is one of the world's leading scholars in the sociology of religion and a senior fellow at the Berkley Center, where his work focuses on globalization, religions, and secularization. He is also professor emeritus at Georgetown University, where he previously taught in the Department of Sociology and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies. During 2017 he was the Kluge Chair in Countries and Cultures of the North at the U.S. Library of Congress' John W. Kluge Center, where he worked on a book manuscript on Early Modern Globalization through a Jesuit Prism. He has published works on a broad range of subjects, including religion and globalization, migration and religious pluralism, transnational religions, and sociological theory. His best-known work, Public Religions in the Modern World (University of Chicago Press, 1994), has become a modern classic in the field and has been translated into several languages, including Japanese, Arabic, and Turkish. In 2012, Casanova was awarded the Theology Prize from the Salzburger Hochschulwochen in recognition of his life-long achievement in the field of theology. Casanova is a member of the Working Group on Displaced Persons and Hospitality to the Stranger, part of the Culture of Encounter Project.

Ann R. David is professor of dance and cultural engagement at Roehampton University, where she heads the dance department and directs the Center for Dance Research. She is interested in dance and popular culture, South Asian dance, dance and religion, and dance ethnography and anthropology.

Josh DeWind is director of the Migration Program and the Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship Programs at the Social Science Research Council. His research focuses on migration, including interest in education, development, and religion.

David Garbin is senior lecturer in sociology in the University of Kent’s School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research. He works on migration, transnationalism, urban religion and development in Africa, and the African diaspora, among other topics.

Kim Knott is professor in the department of politics, philosophy, and religion at Lancaster University and deputy director of the Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats. Her research interests include media portrayals of religion; diasporas, migration, and identities; and religion, space, and the secular.

Susan Martin is the Donald G. Herzberg Professor Emerita of International Migration at Georgetown University and is currently serving as chair of the Thematic Working Group on Environmental Change and Migration in the World Bank's Knowledge Partnership on Migration and Development. Martin received her M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania.

Samadia Sadouni is a senior lecturer in political science at Sciences Po Lyon in France. Her areas of research include political sociology of religion, international migration and cities, transnational studies and Islam, and dialogue of religions and international relations.